Nearly 4,000 people demonstrated this Saturday March 16 in Villeneuve-de-la-Raho (Pyrénées-Orientales) against the project to build a golf course as well as 600 housing units near the lake. “This project, intended for a privileged population in one of the poorest departments in France, is twenty years old,” says Justine Renard.
‘This vision of land use planning is no longer tenable in the light of climate change and the historic drought that has been affecting the Pyrénée-O Orientales for three years’